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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Johns

VESSEL NO.: Burial 30, Pot 9

NON-PLASTICS: grog and bone

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and a rounded, exterior folded lip

CORE COLOR: F (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: pale brown (10YR 6/3); fire clouding on the body and base

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: pale brown (10YR 6/3); fire clouding on the body and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 7.4 mm, rim

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished on the rim, otherwise smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 7.4

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 20.8

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 20.1

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 8.0

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.92 liters

DECORATION: The rim has an engraved scroll motif repeated four times around the vessel. However, instead of upper and lower scroll fill zones of brackets and negative ovals, this vessel has upper and lower rows of small excised pendant triangles; the apex of both rows of pendant triangles point towards the vessel carination. Each scroll motif is separated from the others by excised brackets. A white kaolin clay pigment has been rubbed in the engraved lines.

TYPE: cf. Ripley Engraved, var. Gandy

Ripley Engraved, var. Gandy carinated bowl, Burial 30, Pot 9.

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Keywords

American Southeast, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology

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